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The Joy Luck Club · 1989
My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty since she died two months ago. My father thinks she was killed by her own thoughts.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The narrator is asked to fill a mother's empty place at the mah jong table. That seat has stayed vacant for two months since she died. Her father believes her own thoughts killed her, which is his view, and it hangs over the invitation.
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